Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-21
WHERE TIE HOGS SQUEAL,
A Brief Resume Of 0nr New Suburb on the
South.
FACTORIES AND WAREHOUSES.
The Wonderful Development Which
This Thriving Section OF Town
10 Now Making In Exceliens
Style.


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Very little has been said about tho
work that is actually progressing at
South Omaha at the present time. So
many new enterprises are being brought
forward and so many largo establish
ments from the east are seeking loca-
tions there, that the minds OF the people
are filled constantly with what is coming
and they lose sight OF what is really
being done. Aside from the work being
carried on in the packing houses already
established, which includes the slaugh.
tering OF from three to five thousand
hogs per day, besides cattle, and IN the
other manufacturing ablishments,
such as the brewery, carriage and sleigh
factory, ETC., there is great amount OF
work going on which receives but little
attention. One of the first things to at
tract the attention Of the visitor to South
Omaha, Is the long procession of
teams filing by the Exchange building.
A little inquiry will gain the informa.
ton that these teams, 100 IN number, are
employed to grade down the hills west of
the exchange building, and to fill in the
low grounds adjoining the railroad
tracks. Over 80, 900 will be expended in
this grading alone. The removal of the
hills is to make room for tho extension of
the yards, and packing houses, and the
filling in OF tbs lower ground is to pro-
vide more room for trackage facilities.
This work is under the superintendency
of Mr. Dorrance, a well-known railroad
man, and the plans which he is now
carrying out include twelve miles of side.
tracks. The laying of these tracks will
cost an additional forty or fifty thousand
dollars. This does not include the cost
of the three mogul engines which are
now being built for the stock yard COM
pany, to be in readiness by the time the
tracks are completed, in sixty to ninety
days. Besides the grading being done
by the stock yards company, many teams
therities and BY the different railroad
companies, making total of about 800
teams engaged in grading within
radius of about a mile from the exchange
building.
Another big enterprise, and one which
usually calls forth from visitors the
exclamation, whats that?" is the sewer
which IS being constructed from the little
lake, near the exchange building, to the
river. Beginning at the lake it extends
south along the old creek bed for dis.
tance of about half mile. This part. of
the sewer, ten feet high and eight feet
wide, is made by the driving of double
row of piles, driven four feet apart,
heavily tinbered and covered with plank.
When the grading is completed it will be
entirely covered from view. This
SsaIfS section Ct Gn;shss sewer is already Haly,
a short distance south Of the Swift pack
ing house it will connect with the tunnel
which is being constructed through the
hills to the river. A large force Of men
ere already at work upon the tunnel,
having started in at the river, it being
nece ssary to begin at the lower end to so
as to furnish an outlet, for the water as
the WORK progresses. The tunne! itself
which will be constructed of brick, will
be five feet in the clear, and at tie high
est part of the hill will be eighty feet be-
low the surface The total length OF the
sewer will be about 22, 900 feet, and will
furnish drainage for the stock yards and
all the packing houses.
Swift & Co.'S packing house is we'll
under way, there being force of $50 men
employed on the work at the present
time, and as soon as the work has pro-
gressed a little farther this force will be
doubled. The beef house, TO be completed
so as to be used in October, is 25Ox2SS
feet and four stories in height. The work.
men are now engaged on the second
story of this building and push.
ing forward as rapidly as pos
sible. The foundations for the
other buildings are being laid,
The tank. oil, bone and fertilizing house
stories hige. The hog house, which will
be situated close by the beef house, will
be four-story building. 200x240 feet.
The foundations for the engine and
boiler houses are already laid, the size of
the former being 40x70 feet on the ground,
and of the latter 4Ox65 feet. These build
ings will be of brick, with the exception
of the beef house, whose upper stories
E Sdase be wifi frame BE- added isa and ss rGpsa
as the other buildings are completed.
Altogether there will be an expenditure
of from quarter to half million of dol
lars.
Armour & Co. have already COM
menced work on the extension to their
packing house, and there are now about
$50 men engaged in making. the neces-
sary excavations. AS has already been
mentioned, this new addition will have a
1000 hogs per day, and will be the
largest house thus far located here.
There is y great amount of work in
progress of minor Importance to that
mentioned, but which, in the aggregate,
would make a big showlnff Among
| other things, the stock yards company
have large force of builders at work
upO-A u DaTH WHICH Will uc lOUAOO lcct.
1t will be of brick, with iron roof and
| doors, and fire-proof throughout. This
win be used for storing the hay and feed
needed at the yards, and will have cost
when completed S6,0O0 Workmen have
| just put the finishing touches upon a
stand pipe that is 90 feet in diameter and
75 feet in height, and that cost $4,000.
| Two companies are engaged IN putting
| down artesian wells. one at the Fowler
packing house, and the other at the pnmp
house near the exchange building. The
latter has already reached depth of zoo
feet, and good flow, of water mas been
obtained, but the botmg will not be stop
ped until at least . 1000 feet has
been reached. These improve,
ments, representing an outlay OF
hundreds of thousarids Of dollars, do not
include the thousands being expended
by private enterprise in the building OF
lots, grading of lots and other general
improvements in South Omaha.
An Attempted Con nfidence Game.